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Otago Daily Times
29-05-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Sentence lengthened for failure to comply
A meth dealer will spend more time in prison for refusing to leave his cell and explain where he got $45,000 cash and a vintage motorbike. Desmond Galvin-Taikato, 33, appeared by video-link from custody in the Dunedin District Court yesterday and admitted a rare charge of failing to comply with orders and search warrants. The court heard the defendant was serving a four-year, seven-month prison sentence for supplying methamphetamine. On March 10, a judge issued an examination order under proceeds-of-crime legislation, forcing him to meet with police. The order sought an explanation about $45,450 seized from him at an Auckland residential rehabilitation facility and the acquisition of vehicles, including a 1957 Ford Fairlane. Police also wanted him to identify the origin of cash in his bank and his involvement and profits from his drug dealing. The order required the defendant to attend Otago Corrections Facility on April 8 and on other unspecified occasions. When police showed up to serve Galvin-Taikato with the order, he refused to come out of his cell to meet them. A Corrections worker had to serve the order on him, and also gave him documentation explaining his rights and that he could have a lawyer present during the examination process. On April 10, police went to the prison regarding the examination order, but Galvin-Taikato again refused to leave his cell. Yesterday, Judge David Robinson said the defendant had ''thumbed his nose'' at the law. That was consistent with Galvin-Taikato's history of other serious offending and breaches of release conditions, he said. The judge highlighted the reason for the orders was so people could not profit from their crimes, and that non-compliance would have an adverse impact at parole hearings. Judge Robinson sentenced him to four months' imprisonment, cumulative on the term he was already serving.
Yahoo
17-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
'67 Mercury Cyclone Is the Man's Car for Men Who Like Their Action Big
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." From the moment Edsel Ford introduced the world to the new Mercury brand in 1938, marketing the rival to GM's Pontiac and Chrysler's Dodge proved a challenge. Nearly every Mercury model had a cheaper yet similar-looking sibling with Ford badges, so a heavy dose of marketing was always needed to differentiate them. For the 1967 model year, the Lincoln-Mercury Division went with a "Mercury, the Man's Car" theme. Here's a magazine advertisement for the 1967 Cyclone, a sporty two-door derived from the Ford Fairlane. Did the "manly" '67 Mercuries really seem more masculine than the competition, and did this campaign even make sense during a year in which plenty of men were growing their hair long and adopting more androgynous fashions? What makes a man? And were Mercury's marketers any more successful 35 years later, when their advertising targeted "smart women?"
Yahoo
08-10-2024
- Yahoo
Two men arrested after stealing classic car in South Seattle
Seattle police arrested two suspects involved in the theft of a classic car on September 28 in South Seattle, according to a department release. Officers responded to reports of two masked men pushing a stolen 1959 blue Ford Fairlane down the 4700 block of South Findlay Street at 6:53 a.m. When they arrived, officers arrested one suspect for theft of a motor vehicle. The second suspect hid in a nearby backyard and fled from officers, leading to a chase through an alleyway. According to police, the man took a fighting stance as officers approached and resisted arrest before being handcuffed. The second suspect was arrested on charges of obstruction and resisting arrest and had a felony warrant for possession of a stolen vehicle. Both suspects, ages 27 and 28, were booked into King County Jail. The stolen vehicle has since been returned to its owner.
